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Updated: June 26, 2025
God is giving me another spell of grace instead of condemning me eternally. He struck his breast and forgot that God does not count the number of amusements preferred and bottles emptied, but the greatness of the struggle in each human heart. Within half an hour the priest's round ponies stood at Slimak's gate.
But the people were happy, laughing and shouting from cart to cart. They turned round by the bridge on to the open ground. The small cart in the rear had now reached Slimak's gate; the big dog fell down panting, the man raised himself to a sitting position and the girl took the strap from her shoulder and wiped her perspiring forehead.
After their dinner Slimak's household dispersed to their different occupations. The gospodyni, tying a red handkerchief round her head and a white linen one round her neck, ran down to the river. Stasiek followed her, looking at the clouds and observing to himself that they were different every day.
As his wife was in the habit of relenting before strangers, so as not to prejudice his office, Grochowski hailed Maciek's arrival gladly, and ordered food for him and milk for the little girl, adding cold meat and vodka to the repast when he heard the news that Slimak's horses had been stolen and that Maciek was applying to him for advice.
By the autumn Slimak's new gospodarstwo was finished, and an addition to his family expected. His second wife not unfrequently reminded him that he had been a beggar and owed all his good fortune to her. At such times he would slip out of the house, lie under the lonely pine and meditate, recalling the strange struggle, when the Germans had lost their land and he his nearest and dearest.
'You're a nice one, said Slimak bitterly, 'there was no policeman to certify that it was we who saved you the hog, but when a boy plays a prank on you, you go to law. 'Perhaps with you a hog means as much as a man, sneered Fritz; 'with us it is different. Slimak's meditations now turned from bolts and padlocks to prisons. He talked the matter over with Maciek.
'On the contrary, I like it very sweet. But I save the sugar for my grandchildren. The priest laughed at the Jew's astuteness. 'All right! have your tea with sugar and some for your grandchildren as well. Walenty! he called out, 'bring me my fur coat. The Jew began bowing afresh. 'With an entreaty for your Reverence's pardon, I come from Slimak's. 'The man whose house was burnt down?
I will sell you those two acres for sixty roubles and let you off all expenses, so you would gain a clear twenty roubles against Gryb's bargain, But I make one condition, you must decide at once and without consulting your wife; to-morrow my conditions wouldn't be the same. Slimak's eyes blazed; he fancied he saw quite clearly now that there was a conspiracy against him.
She drank a large glassful, stamped her foot, gurgled 'Oo-ah!, wiped her mouth and said: 'I say! the squire is going to sell everything. The thought of his field crossed Slimak's mind and made his blood run cold, but he answered calmly: 'Gossip!
His son's amazing views added a new worry to Slimak's mind. 'The rascal! listening to people of that sort! he'll never make a peasant; it's a mercy he hasn't stolen yet. They were nearing the drive to the manor-house, and Slimak was walking more and more slowly; Stasiek looked more and more frightened, Jendrek alone kept his saucy air.
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